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Hello, QLDer86, and welcome to Wikipedia! (I do notice you've been around for a few days, sorry for the late welcome!) Wikipedia is one of the world's fastest growing internet sites. We aim to build the biggest and most comprehensive encyclopaedia in the world. To date we have over four million articles in a host of languages. The English language Wikipedia alone has over one million articles! But we still need more!

I notice you have made contributions to the articles University of Queensland, International Peace Operations Association, Private military company and Foreign relations of Australia, along with edits on your own user page, and we thank you very much for that! Please feel free to continue to contribute your knowledge and expertise to our site. All useful contributions, no matter how small, are still needed in improving Wikipedia.

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Again, welcome!

God bless;
Thaurisil 12:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

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